19 Aug 2016

Year 6 Update WK 1

Tuesday 30th August – Meet the Teacher Evening 6:30pm in the school hall

Wednesday 7, 14, 21, 28th September – Year 6 Swimming lessons…6D to leave school as close to 8:30 as possible, 6H leave at 9:30 and 6F to leave at 10:30am – letters to come home shortly

Friday 9th September – PTA Bowling

Thursday 15th September – Mid-Autumn Festival Market at school…please bring a small amount of money to spend at our market

Friday 16th September – Mid-Autumn Festival holiday…school closed

Wednesday 21st September – International Day of Peace

Tuesday 27th September – Parent Consultations 3-Way Conference…book via The Gateway soon

Thursday 29th September – Parent Consultations 3-Way Conference...book via The Gateway soon

Wednesday 5th October – Camp Information Evening 7pm…in the hall

Thursday 6th October – BHS staff training, school closed

Friday 7th October – BHS staff training, school closed

Saturday 8th October to Sunday16th October – half-term holiday

Monday 17th October – ESF staff training, school closed

Welcome back to BHS to everyone for this 2016-17 academic year! Each week we one of us from the Year 6 team will publish all our important Year 6 information, events, dates and notices on this platform so as to keep you fully informed of all the happenings in our year band. Mr Hoskins, Mr Hubbard or Miss Fearn will take turns each week to update you and we will do our best to include lots of photos so your can really see the great work that your child is doing. Usually, we just include photos from our own particular classes each week to ensure coverage of all children throughout the year. May we please ask that you check the Weekly Update each week…the new one is uploaded each Friday afternoon.

School Uniform – all our Year 6s have been looking pretty good this week and have made a real effort to wear the correct school uniform and PE kit to school. May we please asks that this continues and that they are being uniform conscientious right down to their purple socks on normal days and white socks on PE days.

What a great start to the year! The children were so excited when we collected them from the playground on Monday morning and classrooms were buzzing with enthusiasm and a little nervousness as well. This week we have had talks, reminders and visits from Mr Pheasant, Mr Harrison and our new vice-principal Mr Thompson. All the kids listened really well and took on board the changes and were excited to hear about some of the new initiatives that BHS will be introducing not only to the Year 6s but to the school.

Heat Index – Mr Harrison came in on Monday to discuss the new policy for outside play times. The school will be posting up ‘Heat Index’ signs around the playground at break and lunch to help the children understand what they need to do during play times when it’s hot outside. Please ask your child what our signs mean.

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Year 6 Unit of Inquiry 1

Transdisciplinary Theme : Sharing the Planet

Central Idea : Peoples response to conflict may impact the quality of human life.

Lines of Inquiry – We will inquire into…

causes of conflict
conflict resolution and management
consequences of resolutions

Concepts : causation, perspective, responsibility

Learner Profile : open-minded, communicator, caring

Attitudes : co-operation, tolerance, empathy

This week we spent some time introducing our new UOI and attempted to unscramble the Central Idea and think really hard about what each word means. We also had great fun on our unit provocation! We attempted to build a spaghetti and marshmallow tower…..testing out our collaboration and conflict management skills. Check out the photos. We also completed our pre-assessments for this UOI and thought deeply about what we know already about ‘conflict’ and ‘quality of human life’.

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Strand Maths – Measurement

Central Idea – Conversion of units and measurements allows us to make sense of the world we live in.

Number Maths – Place Value

Central Idea – The base 10 place value system extends infinitely in two directions.

Our units for the start of this year are ‘Measurement’ for Strand Maths and ‘Place Value’ for Number Maths. We will have 3 differentiated Number Maths lessons this year in Year 6 and the children were busy this week completing their pre-assessment so we can sort out their new Number groups which will begin on Monday.

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This week we mainly worked really hard on doing assessments! Spelling tests and written summer recounts dominated our English lessons this week but we did spend some time writing about ourselves and getting to know each other.

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Learning Centre – we all visited the Learning Centre this week to introduce us back in the the library and were given reminders about how we go about borrowing this year. Ms Jeves taught us some amazing words this week….ask your child! Had you heard of them before?

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homelearning

Spelling : spelling activities in spelling journals will come home shortly

Reading : Reading homework and reading reflections are due to start soon

UOI – The children need to please make covers for their red UOI folders and for their portfolio. These should be done in either Google Docs or Google Drawings and need to be printed at home and brought into school soon!

Number Maths :